Recomended books on Gymnastics and Calisthenics?

Hello!

I recently joined a Crossfit box so for the first time ever I have access to rings, which people only ever use to do muscle-ups to show off how fit they are, so they are avaiable most of the time, alongside most of the equipment (except barbells, people love the fucking barbells).

I would like to know more about gymnastics and calisthenics to add them on my free day to develop muscle awareness and strength, so I'd really appreciate some tips on which books are a must-read for total beginners.

Some books that have caught my attention are:

- Overcoming Gravity: A systematic approach to Gymnastics and Bodyweight exercises, by Steve Low.
- The Science of Gymnastics, by Monem Jemni.
- Gymnastics Basics: All About Gymnastics, by Annie Kreighton.
- Breaking Parallel: A guide to Crossfit Gymnastics and Body Movement, by Jeff R. Tucker.
- The Naked Warrior, by Pavel Tatsouline.

I dabbled in gymnastics for a couple of months (nothing major just advanced frog stand etc.) but I didn't find any structure in its training and progressions, my only resource was Building The Gymnastic Body.

Supposedly Foundation One changes that.

Very structured and tells you precisely what to do.

It's pretty real goddamn motherfucking expensive though.

The statement has lots of curse words in it because it's expensive. 75 dollars or something.

This criticism of the book BtGB is of course from a beginner's point of view. It's only relevant if you are a beginner too.

Holy freaking Christ. I just saw the prices on BtGB and Foundation One ( $130-120 and 75$ respectively).

I'll definetely get The Naked Warrior, but as a beginner, and after comparing your comments to the reviews on Amazon, I don't think the BtGB is a good purchase for me because of what you have already said (and it was repeated on Amazon). Plus, it seems the FO is just one of four books (to be published), that you can only buy on their webpage, so I don't really trust their reviews. So I'll think on it.

In the meantime, if you have more books to recommend, It'd be really great!
Thanks a bunch, guys.

I'd second The Naked Warrior. Convict Conditioning, one and two by Paul Wade, also.
Convict Conditioning has steps for complete beginners on how to start training and work your way up to 6 really effective calisthenics movements. Movements that seem like they'd be pretty useful to someone who wants to get into gymnastics.